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Drove past the Beattie Rd boundary (graveyard, monster truck location) and they had installed a new fence along that perimeter and could see heavy machinery operating over the top of the fence so likely clearing and levelling the land

Yeah, no doubt they do. At the time they didn't though is what I was meaning and nobody was quite sure how to remove it. Thats the primary reason it took so long. There was literally no procedure in place and nobody is going to take any responsibility for damaging something unknown. You can't just unbolt one car from the other and sit it on the track. Even if you don't care about the train, what about the track itself? It's not bullshit at all, it's literally what happened. Now. I know exactly how it works, why do you think I posted? I also know that the entrance way for rivals originally wasn't wide enough to take the assembled trains out the front of the maintenance bay and everything had to be loaded/assembled from the rear.

Can we please bring back the fountain?

How do you justify shutting down the pool at a waterpark?

Movie World does, they have 7. One in the same spot as Steel Taipans and another 6 (one for each car) Excuse the awful photo (had to mess with the colours so you can see inside)... but it shows how this works, the 2nd wheels run on the metal railings and are pushed by the drive tyers and these are the wheels that run along the rails, the white wheels (hyperia's trains)

The gates were blocked off for most of Winterfest, but I believe they just went to the effort of moving equipment and fencing during this time so the night markets could still operate during the school holidays.

@franky it’s been open for almost 4 years and you’re right in saying it pretty much hasn’t had a long maintenance period (I think the longest was a month around the time of the Giant Drop refurb). To my understanding the park were able to develop a maintenance plan with Mack Rides that ensure the ride does receive its proper maintenance, without compromising the guest experience. Checks happen out side of park hours, and they ensure they have a sufficient amount of stock for all the parts they may require so it doesn’t delay reopening. The biggest maintenance job is generally on the trains, but they schedule those to have maintenance completed during school terms, so they can continue to operate it with one train. I’ve witnessed first hand how some of these checks occur and it’s certainly an impressive, thorough and effective process.

The first house took 7 weeks to build.

Honest question here. How have Dreamworld been maintaining Steel Taipan if this is not the case in some regards? It's been open for a couple of years now and I don't think I've ever seen it down for months long maintenance. Are they doing more of it during the morning/arvo being they open and shut later?

Early November shooting is only 3 months away. Surely we'll be seeing some construction soon if not already?

Yeah Steel Taipan is the exact same in the maintenance bay - but dreamworld has what I presume is a carrier\frame to load the cars onto sat outside the station building. It's a wonder MW doesn't have this, and a wonder that MACK haven't had to solve this problem previously given how many of these cars are in use worldwide. As for 'you can't just uncouple one car' - bullshit. you totally could if you wanted to. Might have cost more \ required more heavy machinery to do it right, and probably needing manufacturer \ engineer sign off when the train was finally rebuilt - and ultimately the winch out method they went with would have been cheaper and easier to do, but you could have unbolted the running gear and craned the cars onto the back of a truck anytime you liked. Big difference between can't, and don't want to. Yeaahhhhhh I think you'll find in the context Brad was referring to - he meant the annual maintenance - the one period you didn't mention in your reply.

I hadn't considered that, but it makes sense as that gate is where all the food trucks enter from. It's plausible they could have brought them in through other gates but it would have been more of a disruption to the park. so you're confident that they're providing the space free of charge in exchange for the value of marketing, but in the next sentence, admitting the marketing value is limited? Nah. Unless you've got a copy of the contract, I don't believe they're offering the land use up without payment. There may be quid pro quo arrangements, but they're putting a dollar value 'on the book' for land usage. Because that's how a business accounts for things in the real world. Nobody is lodging their tax return with only their net income reported. I still don't buy that DW is paying out for marketing here. I've already made some suggestions here - and Endemol aren't stupid. Neither are Dreamworld leadership Thats a good point - but with the low cost to entry for night market they'd get overrun... have to charge additional admission I would say. Careful, we don't want to get too technical with the math Yep seems to tie in quite well with the anticipated opening date for claw. though i'm sure previous BB seasons filmed during construction periods so i'm not sure that's the deal breaker it's made out to be.

While I could understand if whitewatermountain and constrictor were somehow linked, i'm not sure i'd buy the aqualoop site being linked to constructor in any impactful way.

The biggest problem with rivals was at the time they literally had nothing to attach a removed train to. When it enters the repair bay it's designed to run on a set of smaller wheels on the outer of the chassis so the wheel carriers can hang freely for service and repair work while in the maintenance bay. There was no procedure how to go about removing a stranded train from the ride, which is a problem because modern coasters frequently don't have two sets of running wheels so you can't just uncouple one car at a time as the one left on the track has nothing to attach to keep the car stable. They are built more like a chassis with only one set of carriers either front or back, with a coupling that bolts to the next car. Pretty much every other coaster has a dolly or frame they roll each car onto as they are often shipped already assembled in containers. Rivals was a bit different. It does. Frequently. Especially from a maintenance standpoint. Not just daily inspections, but weekly, monthly, quarterly checks, repairs, maintenance, routinely done by maintenance teams at night because there aren't enough hours in the morning before opening to get these done, plus opening checks. The other side of it is you have maybe 10-12 hours to form a contingency plan if something is really wrong and you have to work through the night. Don't have that luxury during the day time, so a lot of difficult routine work is done at night. They would probably even get painted in darkness if 1) the weather suits, and 2) painters or the painting company they farm the job out to are prepared to work at night time.

Could be that all of those slides are on the same water pump, which would need to be shut off for modifications.

Maybe the marketing comes alongside the contract of using their land. Therefore they get paid for the use of their land/park/resources, plus they get free marketing. 2-0 equal 2…. Therefore $$$ for DW

Or the markets can take advantage of FNL, with a live audience.

Definetely will provide free rent for any Marketing value swap. Marketing value here is limited. Dreamworlds target market is teenagers on social media and families with kids or teenagers ( on social media ) Given how unsuccessful big brother has become why would dreamworld take risk that the next one will go any better. There business is not in the risk of this production. Why would dreamworld accept rent $ and pay out for marketing $. 1-1 equal 0. Perhaps they pay a small sum but I doubt it . The cost of hosting and administrating security needs to be embedded. When is the due to film cause for imagery you would want the claw working I would say . Not a construction site .

This corner of the park is closed at the moment due to the construction of the new attraction. I don’t necessarily think Constrictor needs to close for it and is likely just a cost saving exercise.

On this, the markets weren’t on last weekend or next weekend while the pathway to Ocean Parade is blocked due to King Claw

You've got rocks in your head if you think they're providing the space for free. Night market might have some issues with that. I don't really care for FNG and TBH i'd be more annoyed if they found yet another reason to push night market around. It's bad enough they do it for halloween. This is key. If they just do season 2001 the same way they did it back then, it's not going to be successful. But if they harness the modern tools they have available this thing could go off (and Endemol aren't that stupid). I was never a big BB fan - I watched occasionally but not religiously. I think getting stuff out on the stream platforms, or things like YouTube will propel this into the younger generations - so all those calling it this early are probably not allowing for things like this, and i'll reserve final judgment until the season is over.

If Big Brother does this right, this is essentially just IRL Twitch. Edit: Some quick Twitch stats thanks to Google AI (so... very possibly wrong) 2.5 million people tune into the Twitch at any given moment Japan and Australia have a combined userbase of 4.1 million Twitch users, making up 1.6% of the platform In Australia, Twitch users are predominantly in the 18-34 age group, with 75% being male So if those details are anywhere near accurate, there is a big gap in the female "twitch" market. BB doesn't need to get an influencer onboard with the cast, but they likely will need them onboard talking about the show

I doubt Dreamworld are providing anything for free and in fact the park is probably making decent money from this partnership and they’re getting a lot of advertising. If the Friday Night Games are indeed returning and occur within the park again, then it’s a way to show the country how good the park is looking and that people should return.

Expanding upon my thoughts I posted previously in this topic, I do think the time has passed on Big Brother being some big National zeitgeist thing, especially with the ~youth~ I mean I'm an "old-head" (37) and I don't even watch TV anymore, only Youtube and Twitch streams (also anime but that doesn't count as TV). What chance does Dreamworld have in capturing that most important young demographic? Unless there's some very specific stunt casting, i.e. getting some younger influencers/content creators involved or even in the house - even if it's just as temporary intruders I agree that this show has little chance at being anywhere near as successful as it was. Even for someone like me who is pretty nostalgic about visiting the eviction stage, etc. I won't be watching OR visiting (of course I live in Melbourne now, but even if I did still live on the GC I don't think I'd care enough to watch or visit).